Re: Partitioning a RAID device

thanks for the hint!
I applied all the md patches for my kernel (2.4.18).

the compilation complained about __minor not to be member of the
mddev structure, so replaced it by a __unit. apart from that patching and
compiling was without problems.

I tried to partition the device using fdisk, but in /var/log/messages
I found

fdisk(pid 1344) tried BLKRRPART ioctl on MD device. Should use MDP device.

and

md: fdisk(pid 2486) used obsolete MD ioctl, upgrade your software to use
new ictls.

so, partitioning did not work.

my fdisk version is 2.11.
should I use another tool for partitioning?
who is responsible for making the device special files?

TIA,
 arne



On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Derek Vadala wrote:

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Arne Wiebalck wrote:

quoted

is it possible to have partitions on a RAID device?

[...]

Anything I am missing here?

You first need to patch your kernel so that the md driver and md devices
support partitioning. Check out
http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux-stable/ for the patches.


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Derek Vadala, derek@cynicism.com, http://www.cynicism.com/~derek

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